The most credible French national newspaper, Le Figaro, publishes today an article on the possible removal of the excommunications that followed the events of 1988, which led to the consecration by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (with Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer as co-consecrator) of four bishops for the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X (FSSPX/SSPX).
Fellay is the source for the "report" (agitprop)and then, later on, we read a mouthiece of the schism denying the effect of Fellay's weasel words and noting the lifting of the excommunications doesn't exclude the sanctions of the excommunications, blah, blah, blah...
The SSPX news agency, DICI, denies some aspects of the article and affirms that it "presents a deeply false view of the state of affairs between Rome and the Fraternity of Saint Pius X". DICI adds the audio link to some remarks Bishop Fellay made last Saturday at Villepreux, near Paris, in which one may realize "in what precise terms Bishop Fellay speaks of a 'withdrawal of the decree of excommunication', which he differentiates well from a removal of the sanctions'."
*No way. Fellay presented a deeply false view..." why, imagine my shock. He is usually so reliable :)
Reading all these breathless rumors is not unlike trying to keep-up with all the rumors of the various couplings of the Hollywood stars and strumpets. Who bothers and what does it matter?
ALL of this is agit-prop meant to keep the hive happily buzzing and to keep Fellay's face in the news as "the" defender of the Faith.
And like some sad widowed housewives who have no life and who focus their attention on Ben and Jen in Hollywod, many in the schism are just a bunch of old bitter protestant women, angry they locked themselves out of the home they were born into. They actually think the Pope will declare their Schismatic Cave a Basilica.
SSPX's DICI stands for Deracinated, Insane, Chimeral, Impotent